--- title: Words people use: "fam" (London, young people) means mates; "can or… — Sounds right, but is wrong · tree and pragmatics description: Words people use: "fam" (London, young people) means mates; "can or not?" (Singapore) means "is it possible?"; "lah" (Singapore) is added to make a sentence sound friendly; "mate" means friend. Who acts: people, fam, Singapore, year old. 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(Singapore) means "is it possible?"; "lah" (Singapore) is added to make a sentence sound friendly; "mate" means friend. **Who acts:** people, fam, Singapore, year old, mate · **What happens:** use, mean, be, add, make, sound · **To what, where:** Words, mates, lah, friend · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Sounds right, but is wrong» of the world course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, fam, Singapore, year old), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong.lesson:21 # text = Words people use: "fam" (London, young people) means mates; "can or not?" (Singapore) means "is it possible?"; "lah" (Singapore) is added to make a sentence sound friendly; "mate" means friend. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-agree ×4 1 Words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 parataxis _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 6 fam fam NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 8 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 9 punct _ _ 9 London London PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:nmod 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 13 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 12 punct _ _ 14 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 parataxis _ _ 15 mates mate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 18 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 19 or or CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 conj _ _ 21 ? ? PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct 22 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct 23 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 24 punct _ _ 24 Singapore Singapore PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 25 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 24 punct _ _ 26 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 27 " " PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:expl 30 possible possible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:conj 31 ? ? PUNCT . _ 26 punct _ _ 32 " " PUNCT " _ 41 punct _ _ 33 ; ; PUNCT : _ 41 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=35:punct 34 " " PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ _ 35 lah lah NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj:pass _ _ 36 " " PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ _ 37 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 38 punct _ _ 38 Singapore Singapore PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 appos _ _ 39 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 38 punct _ _ 40 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux:pass _ _ 41 added add VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 conj _ _ 42 to to PART TO _ 43 mark _ _ 43 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 advcl _ _ 44 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=46:det 45 sentence sentence NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 compound _ _ 46 sound sound VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 43 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=43:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 47 friendly friendly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 xcomp _ _ 48 ; ; PUNCT : _ 52 punct _ _ 49 " " PUNCT `` _ 50 punct _ _ 50 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 nsubj _ _ 51 " " PUNCT '' _ 50 punct _ _ 52 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 parataxis _ _ 53 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 obj _ _ 54 . . PUNCT . _ 26 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | present | people | Words | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | | 2 | **mean** | present | fam and young people | mates | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mate=Topic | | 3 | **mean** | present | Singapore | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | year old *= old* | | | | | possible *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **add** *speech: assert* | present · passive | | lah | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 6 | **make** | to-infinitive | | | | | | friendly *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **sound** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 8 | **mean** | present | mate | friend | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Topic | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:world:183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong.lesson:21`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-agree ×4. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Sounds right, but is wrong, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong/20/) - next →: ["If... then..." and its traps, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/184-if-then-and-its-traps/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong/)